Is there a reason shift+' writes “ ' instead of just ”?

Question

I was writing something about using Moebius inversion, and to get the correct symbol I write \"{o} to get the umlaut over the o. However, in TeXnicCenter, shift+' automatically writes "' instead of the desired ". Is there a reason for this? I always have to delete the extra apostrophe each time.

Answer 1

This is a setting of TeXnicCenter (v1.0 Stable RC 1) that can be activated/deactivated. Under Tools -> Options -> General -> Automatic replacement you need to deactivate Replace quotation marks: